Edwin John McAllister

Experienced educator with a proven track record of engaging students in stimulating and relevant material. Well organized, prioritizing test preparedness and student interest. Expertise in curriculum development and student mentorship, creating a supportive and enriching learning environment.

HEADWAE Award Winner (equivalent to teacher of the year, faculty-selected), Belhaven University 2009, Teacher of the Year (student-selected), Belhaven University, 2005, Humanities Center Dissertation Fellowship, University of Oregon, 1997, Fulbright-Hayes Chinese Fellowship, Nanjing University, 1995, Outstanding Student, Department of Exchange Students, Nanjing University, 1996, Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Oregon, 1995., Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Oregon, 1992-95, 1996-97., Graduate Scholarship, University of Oregon, 1992-93, Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Mississippi, 1990-91, Annual Humanities Graduate Student Award, University of Mississippi, 1989, Research Assistant, Afro-American Novel Project, University of Mississippi, Department of African-American Studies, 1989, Full-Year Graduate Fellowship, University of Mississippi, 1988, Member of English and Classics Honor Societies, Millsaps College 1985-87.

• ESL Courses: English for Business and Entrepreneurship, English for Macroeconomics, Effective Writing I and II, Effective Pronunciation, American Culture, Integrated Language Studies, ESL for Grades 4, 5, 8, and 9, ESL Composition, ESL Teacher Training, Masterworks of American Literature for Graduate Students, Drama, ESL Fast Reading Comprehension, ESL Oral English, American Culture
• College 400 Level: Race and Slavery in American Literature; Faulkner Seminar; Development of the American Novel; Shakespeare; Classical Literature in Translation; Renaissance Poetry; Bible as Literature; Modern British Literature; History of the Science Fiction Novel; Bibliography and Research
• College 200 or Survey Level: World Lit I and II; British Lit I and II; American Lit I and II; WVC Literature I, II, III, and IV.
• College Freshman Level: Composition I and II; Adult Composition I and II; Introduction to Fiction, Introduction to Poetry.
• High School: Grades 9 and 11 English Language Arts, ENG 101/102 Dual College Credit

• “Narmour and Smith,” “The Leake County Revelers,” “Hoyt Ming and the Pep Steppers,” “Dolphus Weary,” and “John Perkins.” Mississippi Encyclopedia. University of Mississippi Press, 2017.
• “Smallpox, Opium, and Invasion: Chinese Invasion, White Guilt, and Native American Displacement in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction.” Re-viewing Race. David Goldstein-Shirley, ed. University of Washington Press, 2006.
• Reviews of Canaan’s Tongue by John Wray, Junior Ray by John Pritchard, Birthright by Clay Blount, One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner by Jay Parini, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War by Daniel Aaron, The Shadow of the Sentinel by Warren Getler and Bob Brewer, Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South by Richard Rubin, The Southern Scribe, online, 2004-2006.
• Review of Les Sauvages Americains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature by Gordon Sayre. Christianity and Literature. Volume 47 (1998): 241-243.
• “‘Our Glory and Joy’: Stephen Riggs and the Politics of Ethnography in Nineteenth Century America.” Historicizing Christian Encounters with the Other. John Hawley, ed. New York: New York University Press, November 1997.
• “Review of Colonialism’s Culture by Nicholas Thomas.” Christianity and Literature. Vol. 45 (1995): 140-142.
• “Fleming Hewitt Revell.” American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997-98.
• “‘That still, cold, contained figure’: Symbol and Identity in Light in August.” Notes on Mississippi Writers. 23 (1991): 15-23.
• Ongoing American old-time banjo instructional workshops at music festivals and camps over the last five years in Germany.
• “Mississippi Fiddle Tunes: 1920s to the Present” with Ken Waldman, Harry Bolick, and Jack Magee. Arts and Lecture Series, Millsaps College, November 7, 2017.
• “Using the House System to Build Relationships Across Grade Levels” with Melissa McCants. South Carolina Region 5 Gifted and Talented Conference, College of Charleston North Campus, June 15, 2016.
• “Mississippi String Band Music in the 1920s and 1930s.” Presentation and performance for Millsaps College History Department Friday Lecture Series, April 1, 2011.
• “ ‘If Farish Street Could Talk’: Popular Music in Jackson, MS in the 1880s.” “If These Walls Could Talk” Manship House History Symposium, Jackson, MS, January 29, 2010.
• “Origins of the Banjo.” Neighborhood Christian Center, February 2007.
• “Barbarians at the Gate: A Very Brief History of China’s Contact with the West.” 2008 Kaleidoscope Conference on China: An Emerging World Power, Hinds County Community College, Raymond, MS, October 2008.
• “Chinese Immigrants in American Missionary Labor Fiction, 1868-1878.” New York Conference on Asian Studies, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, November, 1997.
• “The Only Good Chinaman is a Dead Chinaman: Smallpox, Invasion, and White Guilt on the Pacific Frontier.” New York College English Association Conference, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York: September, 1997.
• “Rhetorics of Nature in the Representation of Chinese Immigrants” (with Li Lu Chen). Oregon State Conference on Composition and Rhetoric, Eastern Oregon State University, La Grande, Oregon: May, 1997.
• “The Yellow Peril: Representations of the Chinese in Nineteenth-Century American Missionary Ethnography.” International Conference on Cultural Reception and Metamorphosis, Nanjing Teachers University, People’s Republic of China: July, 1996.
• “Teaching in Cyberspace: A Workshop.” Oregon State Conference on Composition and Rhetoric, Linn-Benton Community College, Albany, Oregon: May, 1995.
• “‘Our Glory and Joy’: Stephen Riggs and the Politics of Nineteenth-Century Missionary Ethnography.” Conference on Christianity and Literature, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California: May, 1995.
• “Fugitives, Futurists, and the ‘Aura of Inevitability,’ or, How to Make a Movement.” Northwest American Studies Association Conference: April, 1994.
• “We’re Off to See the Wizard: Cultural Literacy and Creating Community in the Composition Classroom.” Oregon State Conference on Composition and Rhetoric, University of Oregon: November, 1993.
• “‘That Still, Cold, Contained Figure’: Symbol and Identity in Light in August.” University of Mississippi Graduate Student Forum: Fall, 1991.
• “The Mirror and the Window: George Eliot’s Ideal of Womanhood in Adam Bede.” University of Mississippi Graduate Student Forum: Fall, 1990.